Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] the [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | This seems to be because of the small size of the owl in relation to its prey , so that it can not swallow the prey whole but tears it up as do the diurnal raptors ( see Appendix for details of little owl biology ) . |
2 | But police do not think the arson attack was a deliberate attempt to put out lights in the town so that the looting could take place . |
3 | You may not think the end result worth it , but there are an awful lot of balls to be kept in the air and some fairly nasty consequences if any should accidentally hit the ground . |
4 | ( c ) I do not think the Engdiv case , 1990 S.L.T. 617 assists Mr. Beazley , since both the pursuers seeking contribution and the defenders resisting it were parties to the building contract at issue in the case , so that it was difficult to resist the submission that the claim for contribution in that case was in a matter relating to a contract . |
5 | Moreover , the degree of richness of the productive areas does not affect the territory size , but rather controls the numbers of predators that can use it , thus controlling group size in social predators ( Macdonald , 1983 ) . |
6 | It is also fortunate that the uncertainty in the flux density for the SNR does not affect the brightness estimate significantly . |
7 | Dr McLeish said the decision to involve the Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service at today 's talks would not affect the strike plan . |
8 | Replacement of pipette Cl - with the large anion gluconate or with Br - or I - ( Fig. 3 a ) did not affect the uptake current . |
9 | This shows that the temperature-sensitive mutation ts-1 does not affect the subunit assembly of the endonuclease by preventing binding to the HsdR subunit . |
10 | I like to use board rather than canvas because I always make alterations , and I can rub out with steel wool or even paint stripper ( which does not affect the gesso primer ) without damaging the board . |
11 | We have been asked to make it clear that the joint Essex County Council/Essex TEC scheme to create an enterprise centre at the site of a former school near Parkeston Quay ( reported in the EADT yesterday ) does not affect the company Autoprint , which will continue to trade from its premises at School House , Hamilton Street . |
12 | The dependence of inositol phosphate formation by lysates of cells expressing PLC- β1 or PLC- β2 on the concentration of βγ t is shown in Fig. 2 b. βγ t did not affect the inositol phosphate formation by extracts of pMT2-transfected cells . |
13 | This will not affect the program operation . |
14 | Even so , giving bright light at a time which should not affect the body clock or even adjust it in the wrong direction could be tested — as has already been described . |
15 | This will not affect the throttle channel ( Fig. 2.3 ) . |
16 | Berg and his associates ( 1983 ) found that the use of Senokot did not affect the improvement rate over behavioural methods . |
17 | Fashioning and firing a pot does not affect the clay composition but care must be taken , since potters frequently mix additives into clay to prepare it , and burial of pottery in the ground has some slight effects on its composition . |
18 | One freeze treatment did not affect the acetylhydrolase activity . |
19 | Therefore , one can not locate the priming effect in a semantic sub-system of the mental lexicon , nor in a phonological sub-system , and hence a model of the mental lexicon involving just these two sub-systems is untenable . |
20 | It is a common tactic of sellers to delay producing the disclosure letter until as late as possible , usually saying that they can not prepare the disclosure letter until the warranties against which disclosure is made have been finalised . |
21 | The occasional over-indulgence will not make the person guilt-ridden . |
22 | It looks like they can not make the Queen pay tax so they are coming after us instead . |
23 | Having been reduced now to travelling on foot , he could not make the return journey to Bristol in a day , and Sara too often found herself left lonely and uneasy in a cottage whose attractions were not increased by the coming of winter , or by neighbours who were ‘ a little too tattling and inquisitive ’ . |
24 | Why not make the groove move at twenty inches per second throughout the whole disc ? |
25 | It can not make the machine work . |
26 | The growing do-it-yourself spirit does not make the fashion designer obsolete , but it does reject the instant ‘ good taste ’ acquired by the designer label . |
27 | And does it not make the time problem even worse ? |
28 | Instead of lawn … ruler-straight path … shrubs ( all of which can be taken in at a single glance , and are as individual as frozen pizzas ) , why not make the eye work ? |
29 | Oil companies do monitor conditions but do not make the information public . |
30 | Although it is not in itself part of the system which generates intensional structures , and we shall not make the term part of our fundamental descriptive apparatus , we may say that the property of an adjective applies to an entity when the language user takes the property which it designates to be valid ( in positive statements ) for some entity which he or she also recognizes ( even if the entity itself may be acknowledged as an imaginary one ) . |